Hiya! Francis from ScraperWiki here. There are a couple of things going on: Firstly, it is about inconsistency between how developers are treated and how peopl

Hiya! Francis from ScraperWiki here. There are a couple of things going on: Firstly, it is about inconsistency between how developers are treated and how people-who-can-use-Excel are treated. Secondly, it is that vetting of "data use" is so hard, it means low end users just can't buy it at all (financial and red tape reasons). Even if they are happy with the per-Tweet cost. Speaking for ScraperWiki, we want Twitter to make more money from their data. More details here: https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2014/08/the-story-of-getting-twitter-data-and-its-missing-middle/ https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2014/08/the-story-of-getting-tw...